05.01.02

Interesting article in the IHT today.

Bye-Bye Borderless Web: Countries Are Raising Electronic Fences

excerpt: for much of its life, the Internet has been seen as a great democratizing force, a place where nobody needs know who or where you are. But that notion has begun to shift in recent months, as governments and private businesses increasingly try to draw boundaries around what used to be a borderless Internet to deal with legal, commercial and terrorist concerns.

vaguely remember reading about similar issues sometime ago..

funny how we always talk about how the Internet is changing the world beyond recognition

global village. borderless world. loss of state power. etc.

now, it looks like we are going back to square one.